Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zaha Hadid

Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.

Yvon Chouinard

I never wanted to be a businessman; I was a craftsman and good at working with my hands. At some point, I decided that this company is my best resource. Patagonia now exists to put into practice all the things that smart people are saying we have to do not only to save the planet but to save the economy.

Santino Fontana

It doesn’t make sense, it’s not logical, it’s not a safe profession or a smart profession if you wanna make money or have a living or have a family. So the fact that we keep doing [theatre] means we’re getting something from it that is almost childlike in its innocence.

Samuel Witwer

When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.

Sandra Bernhard

From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical people. I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. And I continued to do that throughout my life.

Samuel Johnson

1. Turn all care out of your head as soon as you mount the chaise. 2. Do not think about frugality: your health is worth more than it can cost. 3. Do not continue any day's journey to fatigue. 4. Take now and then a day's rest. 5. Get a smart seasickness if you can. 6. Cast away all anxiety, and keep your mind easy. This last direction is the principal; with an unquiet mind neither exercise, nor diet, nor physic can be of much use.

Warren Beatty

I don't think you should talk while the movie was going on and say, 'Oh, look at that - look how smart I was' or 'What a brilliant shot that is!' I don't believe in that.

Warren Buffett

I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

Warren Buffett

You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it. The other reason is I never thought I would be way happier when I had 2X instead of X. You ought to have a good time all the time as you go along.

Warren Buffett

Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."

Warren Buffett

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

Warren Buffett

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

Wendy Williams

When you're an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, 'I'll show 'em. I will show you.'

Wilfred Grenfell

Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably.

Walter Dean Myers

I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

Walter Isaacson

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

Walter Isaacson

I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

Walter Isaacson

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.

Vladimir Putin

After all, despite the scandalous behavior of one and, by the way, the other candidate [they are both , Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, scandalous in their own ways], they are smart, they are really smart and they are aware of the leverages they should use to make the voters in the United States understand them, feel them and hear them.

Yogi Berra

I guess I've got a smart wife.

Woody Hayes

I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.

Woody Allen

I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents.

William J. Clinton

I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense.

William J. Clinton

If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it.

Whitey Herzog

For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.

Sarah Silverman

I don't want to be a facilitator for other funny people. It doesn't seem smart for me to be in a comedy and not be funny. My spirit can't take it.

Sarah Silverman

The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.

Sarah Palin

The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.

Sarah Palin

They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.

Sara Gilbert

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong.

Samuel L. Jackson

Michelle Obama is Superwoman. What can't she do? That's why people love her. She can be on the Supreme Court and anywhere else she wants. She can be the president. She's history and she'll stay history because she is so amazingly smart and together.

Salman Rushdie

You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.

Rudy Rucker

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.